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On her podcast, TV, I SAY WITH ASHLEY RAY, Ashley has no pretentions about good entertainment. But once upon a time, she was a young Bergman scholar (and even, briefly, a beat poet). This entire trajectory of self-examination and unapologetic devotion to her own interests might just have its roots in Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's 2004 opus, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, and its female lead, Clementine (Kate Winslet).

After that conversation, Jordan has one quick thing about the phenomenon of Barbenheimer.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Ashley Ray

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Manuel Betancourt's new book is called THE MALE GAZED: ON HUNKS, HEARTTHROBS, AND WHAT POP CULTURE TAUGHT ME ABOUT (DESIRING) MEN, but he's feeling seen by two of the brightest stars of '90s and '00s Hollywood. He tells Jordan about what spoke to him in Natalie Portman's Alice from CLOSER (2006, d. Mike Nichols) and Julia Roberts's Jules in MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING  (1997, d. P.J. Hogan). 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the ladies of DEAD RECKONING.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Manuel Betancourt

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Jessica St. Clair is a writer and actor who you've definitely seen or heard, be it on her own shows with Lennon Parham (Best Friends Forever, Playing House), countless TV and movie appearances, or on her podcast with June Diane Raphael, The Deep Dive. She and Jordan bond over the messy, weird details of deep best friendship across lots of movies and TV shows, but especially past Feeling Seen favorites Anne of Green Gables (1985), When Harry Met Sally (1989), and Lady Bird (2017).

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about Mission Impossible 7.1

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Jessica St. Clair

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This episode originally aired in January 2022.

We were delighted to have actor Isabelle Fuhrman as one of our earliest guests. She may be best known for playing the titular role in the Orphan franchise (and since this interview she's gone on to stun us with Orphan: First Kill); Sheroes  is in theaters now; and she played Clove in the Hunger Games movies.  In this episode, she talks with Jordan about her movie, The Novice (just released at the time of this interview), and how her role in it changed the way she thought about acting, her body, and the very nature of work. 

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Isabelle Fuhrman

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In 2001's Two Can Play That Game, Vivica A. Fox plays Shanté Smith, a confident, self-possessed woman who narrates the film by barreling the camera and telling the audience just how it is. A middle-schooler at the time, Shar Jossell (now a journalist and the co-host of We See Each Other: The Podcast), heard Shanté speaking to her in more ways than one. And what she heard changed her life.

That, plus one quick thing about the new movie SHEROES.

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Before she was directing movies about iconic figures (becoming something of an icon herself in the process) Mary Harron was a journalist. And before that, she was inspired by characters like Rosalind Russell's Hildy Johnson in HIS GIRL FRIDAY -- a woman who is valued for her incomparable skill and undeniable smarts, who can't quite seem to leave her complicated profession behind for what society deems a more "respectable" life.  Mary's new movie is DALíLAND, in theaters and on demand now.

Then Jordan's got one quick thing about the trailer for the new Luca Guadagnino movie, CHALLENGERS.

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At just 18, actor Laya DeLeon Hayes already has a decade in film, television, and video games under her belt. She voiced Doc McStuffins, won a BAFTA for God of War Ragnarök, and co-starred with Queen Latifah on The Equalizer. Now she's helming a film of her own in Bomani J. Story's The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a reimagining of Frankenstein that premiered at SXSW and is now in theaters. She comes to us today with the kind of character she hopes to see more of -- and play more of -- on screen: the fun, awkward, and freely herself Issa Dee on Insecure, as played by the show's creator, Issa Rae.

Then, Jordan has one very quick thing about the new Expendables 4 trailer.

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Long before becoming a celebrated author of A STAR IS BORED and the newly-released BIG GAY WEDDING, Byron Lane was a small-town Louisiana kid who dreamed of life in the big city. More than dreaming of it, he felt like it was where he was meant to be. Which is why he felt so seen by Bette Midler's switched-at-birth country twin, Sadie Ratliff, in the 1988 Midler & Tomlin comedy BIG BUSINESS.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the newly released trailer for GIVE ME AN A!

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When award-winning comedian Liz Glazer watched The Wonder Years as a kid, she thought she was seeing, for the first time a kid just like her: one who knew even as he lived his life that he'd one day look back on all this wistfully. This simple (mis?)interpretation of the show foreshadowed the type of adult she'd grow into: a comedian who is able to weave tragic experience into comedy with ease. 

After Jordan and Liz's conversation, Jordan has one quick thing about the  new John Cena/Jackie Chan pairing we've all been waiting for (right?).

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Liz Glazer

Liz's new LP, A Very Particular Experience

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If you've never seen ELECTION, or haven't seen it in a while, you might think of it as a quirky tale of a try-hard shrew-in-training who cares too much about winning an election. But take a closer look and you'll find that Tracy is by no means the villain of the piece. For film commentator, festival programmer, and The Final Girls co-host Anna Bogutskaya -- whose new book is called UNLIKEABLE FEMALE CHARACTERS -- Tracy embodied a personal inner striver that she couldn't deny, and refuses to apologize for. 

Then, one quick thing about Jordan sitting in as guest-host for Bullseye, where she was reunited with Bridget Everett!

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Anna Bogutskaya

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From her roles in a semi-autobiographical sitcom in 1996 (Life's Work) to The Parent Trap to Abbott Elementary, Lisa Ann Walter has played a lot of different kinds of strong, brassy women. And even though standards of beauty and acceptance in Hollywood are always changing, those winds haven't always blown in her favor. But what makes an icon iconic is her unwavering commitment to being her own unmistakable self.

After talking with Lisa, Jordan has one quick thing about Fast X (and especially Jason Momoa).

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Elle Woods is an iconic character, but not an obvious one from Tre'vell  Anderson, author of the new book, We See Each Other: A Black. Trans Journey Through TV and Film. Leave it to the effervescent Tre'vell to bring their signature FANTI gray-area mindset to their Feeling Seen character choice! In this episode, Tre'vell and Jordan look at what it is about Elle Woods that offered Tre'vell a glimpse of what they could be...and consider if future generations of Black, trans folks might be able to feel seen without much mental gymnastics.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the WGA strike.

Get Tre'vell's new book, We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

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Kara Brown's confidence and self-assuredness have taken her far in her career as a writer, and those are qualities she shares with Katharine Hepburn's Tracy in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. Of course, with that self-possession comes a set of assumptions others make about you, and getting held to a special standard. Jordan and Kara get into all of this,  bond over their shared memories of the heyday of blog culture,  and compare notes on not having impostor syndrome.

Then, one quick thing Karen Gillan’s Nebula.  

Fancy Pasta Bitch in Vogue

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Balancing the dark and the light sides of coming of age, womanhood, and navigating the social order is something filmmaker Nida Manzoor always strives for in her projects (like WE ARE LADY PARTS and POLITE SOCIETY, in theaters now). And she wants to shout one of her biggest inspirations from the rooftops: SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS (1998, Tamara Jenkins), which centers on high-schooler Vivian Abromowitz, as played by a young Natasha Lyonne.

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Director Catherine Hardwicke's latest film is MAFIA MAMMA, and you probably know her as the director of TWILIGHT, LORDS OF DOGTOWN, or THIRTEEN. But did you know that she got her start as a production designer, and that she production designed TANK GIRL? Well, this was after she got her degree in architecture. All this, plus dressing like a building, dealing with on-set toxic events, directing Monica Bellucci, and the kinds of characters she'd like to see on screen, come up in this sprawling conversation that reveals an artist as fun, badass, and idiosyncratic as the titular TANK GIRL.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Catherine Hardwicke

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Co-star of the new horror film Malum (currently in theaters) Clarke Wolfe knew she related to  Grace Hart in the theater when she first saw 2000's Miss Congeniality. That resonance wasn't all positive. In this conversation, she shares her own inner misfit feelings, and explains how and why she became her own Michael Caine (er, Victor Melling). 

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A.V. Rockwell's feature debut won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year. Now it's in theaters, and anyone who goes to see it won't be able to miss the love and honesty in her depiction of New York City. So perhaps it's not surprising that she brought us a character from another New York City coming-of-age movie (albeit about a different borough than her native Queens). It's Troy, the young girl who sits at the center of Spike Lee's 1994 movie, CROOKLYN. 

Then Jordan has one quick thing about her beloved YELLOWJACKETS (season 1 spoiler alert!).

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With Jordan Crucchiola and A.V. Rockwell

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It's our final show of MaxFunDrive 2023, and we're breaking out the big guns and weird masks to bring you this thoughtful conversation with director Brandon Cronenberg. Eschewing our usual movie character framework, Jordan and Brandon dig into the very idea of why and how we see ourselves, in film and in our daily lives. A special time of year means special episodes! Head over to maximumfun.org/join to become a member and support the future of FEELING SEEN.

INFINITY POOL is available to rent or buy on most streaming platforms, and will be released on Blu-Ray on April 11.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Brandon Cronenberg

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We're celebrating by getting the current Jordans of Maximum Fun together. It's Jordan, Jesse, Go! host and Bubble creator Jordan Morris, talking about Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man, featuring future Babylon star Tobey Maguire as a busy guy named Spider-Man/Peter Parker.

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Producer's note: When we prepped Jordan's new intro to this amazing interview from April of '22, I had jotted something down like, "who could have dreamed back then that he'd go on to win all the awards." Jordan rightly called this out, because (as she says here) she, and other critics, DID dream that. What I'd meant was: it seemed like one of those performances and films that you hope will be both lauded AND awarded, but you aren't holding your breath for the latter. How thrilling to be wrong sometimes.

Watch Ke Huy Quan accept his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

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As a kid, he was Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in The Goonies. But as he got older, Ke Huy Quan began to feel that there wasn't really a place for him in front of the camera. After decades of telling himself he didn't miss acting, Crazy Rich  Asians made a splash, and Ke began to think that maybe it was time to get back to acting. Ke opens up about all of that, and landing in the perfect threefold role of Waymond, Alpha Waymond, and CEO Waymond in Everything Everywhere All At Once. 

And then, Jordan has one quick thing about Bend it Like Beckham's 20th anniversary.

With Jordan Crucchiola and Ke Huy Quan

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Daniela Taplin Lundberg has made her mark in Hollywood doing something that’s become increasingly rare: creating authentic and artful films that are made for adults and appeal to a wide audience. These are movies like The Kids are All Right, Beast of No Nation, Nanny, Harriet, just to name a few. Today she talks with Jordan about Thelma and Louise – and in particular the affinity that she felt with Geena Davis’s Thelma from the first time she saw the movie (in the theaters, as a teenager). The movie was even an early example of her producer’s eye – she knew she’d seen something special before the film became a sensation.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about her old friends and their new (nu?) dance with Ghostface in Scream 6.

Check out Daniela’s podcast, Hollywood Gold.

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Jordan Crucchiola and Daniela Taplin Lundberg

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After Bring it On, before Ant-Men, Peyton Reed directed a cheeky little period/genre parody called Down with Love. Its stars (Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor) were what brought 10-year-old Kyle Turner to the DVD rental house, but it was supporting character Peter McMannus (David Hyde Pierce) that he identified with, even years before he truly clocked what it was he was identifying. Sounds like perfect Feeling Seen fodder!

Then, this week’s One Quick Thing is a slew of fun updates about past guests!

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Kyle Turner

Order The Queer Film Guide

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Director and  production designer (and former child actor) Francesca Maldonado shares how Rebecca (aka Tank Girl) from 1995's TANK GIRL was formative in her life, and offers perspectives on Hot Girl Representation, Valley Girl pride, and what's missing from movies now and in the past.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about an upcoming Amazon series called Class of '07.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Francesca Maldonado

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Throughout the much-lauded, jam-packed runtime of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, Stephanie Hsu shapeshifts from depressed, suffering Joy Wang to countless iterations of the fabulous big-bad Jobu Tupaki. But the flashy confidence of Jobu Tupaki might be a misdirect from the pain she's feeling -- Joy's pain. Cyrus Cohen, film critic and programmer for NewFest, gets into it with Jordan on this week's episode.

Then, one quick thing about Jordan's recent Morning Edition appearance.

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There are a lot of fantastic women in Women Talking, but when Jordan first saw the film in theaters, she was immediately  struck by the powerful performances of the movie's matriarchs, one of whom is played to hilarious, heartbreaking perfection by today's guest, Sheila McCarthy. Sheila tells us about identifying with Liza Minnelli's Pookie Adams in The Sterile Cuckoo — a feeling that she had when she saw the film in theaters as a teenager. Little could she have known that she'd go on to befriend and work with Liza, and so many great stars.

Then there's One Quick Thing about newly minted EGOT winner Viola Davis. 

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As co-creator and showrunner of the show YOU, Sera Gamble knows that one way to fight the gender and romance stereotypes that we've been taught by popular media is to subvert them. In WALL-E, she saw a movie relationship that  offered not only a relatable "female" character, but a relationship paradigm that was worthy of celebration. She and Jordan talk about robots, TV writing, and fighting the patriarchy. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the new INFINITY POOL.

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Comedian Gianmarco Soresi is brutally honest with us this weeks: he deeply relates to Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham!) in Milos Forman's 1984 classical classic, Amadeus. But while Gianmarco can own his Salieri-like insecurities, he can't let it keep him from pursuing virtuosity. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about...

Gianmarco on James Corden

His half hour, "Shelf Life"

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Before writer, producer, and director Roxanne Benjamin was making V/H/S shorts or directing shows like Nancy Drew  and The New Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, she was a disaffected youth who was so recognizable as a Daria that classmates called her by the famous MTV character's name. Now, she joins us  fresh off the streaming release of her new movie, There's Something Wrong With the Children, to talk about relating to Daria, finding a place in the world of horror and filmmaking in general, and some other stuff '80s/'90s kids love.

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If you needed proof that '90s movies were built different, look no further than TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT. It's a practical effect-driven spinoff of a horror comedy anthology from a Black director, sprinkled with bare-breasted ladies, centered around a mixed-race cast, set in the Southwest,  and starring Billy Zane as an ooze-filled demon and Jada Pinkett as a quietly brooding Final Girl. It's a whole moment in horror history, and a young Akela Cooper -- the same Akela Cooper who would go on to write M3GAN and MALIGNANT -- saved up over $40 to buy it on VHS after her parents missed taking her to see in in theaters. 

All that, plus some flowers for Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh as we do our part to push for EEAAO for Everything this awards season.

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Director/production designer Ariel Vida (VIDE NOIR, Rustic Films) has seen RRR many, many times. In this conversation with Jordan, she talks about the ways the movie makes her feel seen not only through the characters themselves, but through its unabashed celebration of abiding friendship  -- and the enthusiastic reception that message has gotten around the world. #RRRforOscars

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about -- what else -- M3GAN.

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Happy New Year! We're celebrating the end of 2022 by replaying a favorite early episode of the show. Enjoy, and here's to great things in 2023.

This episode originally aired in November 2021.

This week’s show could be titled “A Very Special Episode.” We actually have the wonderful Susan Orlean on to talk about watching Meryl Streep her in the movie ‘Adaptation.’ She takes Jordan through the process of discovering that she was going to be a character in the movie. But she also reveals the realizations she made about her own ill-fated marriage while watching the film on the big screen. Plus, in ‘One Quick Thing Before I Go,’ Jordan discusses the new ‘Lord of the Flies’-inspired show ‘Yellowjackets’ and why it has become her personality.

Purchase Susan’s latest book, On Animals

If you haven’t seen Adaptation – get to it!

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Susan Orlean.

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This one is for everybody working to strike that balance between caring for yourself and caring for your "family of origin." A forgotten and surprisingly dramatic SNL spinoff directed by Harold Ramis in 1995, Stuart Saves His Family spoke to a younger Kevin Maher as an adult from a family where alcoholism was an issue. It even factors thematically into Kevin's new humor book, Santa Doesn't Need Your Help, illustrated by Joe Dator. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about feeling uncomfortably seen by Banshees of Inisherin.

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Today, director David Bruckner talks with Jordan about feeling seen by Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig, in the 1987 classic, BROADCAST NEWS. Directed by James L. Brooks, it's a journalism....satire? rom-com? dramedy?... starring Hunter, Albert Brooks, and William Hurt. It's one of those movies that is so prescient about what news media would become. And for David Bruckner -- whose latest film is this year's HELLRAISER -- saw in it some parallels with what it feels like to be a creator in any medium. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the new trailer for 65.

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Film critic Amy Nicholson (whose 'Unspooled' podcast with Paul Scheer is currently in its fourth season) first encountered 'Click' as a budding young critic and USC student. She didn't love it, but it did make her cry. This conversation with Jordan is an exploration of why that might be, alongside the ways things have improved and devolved in the years since the movie's 2006 release.

Then, one quick thing about an unsung badass Christmas movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Amy Nicholson

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Actor Noah Segan -- or, should we say, writer/director/producer/actor Noah Segan -- is the star and creative force behind his directorial debut, BLOOD RELATIVES. In it, he plays a century-old, lone-wolf vampire who suddenly has a teenage daughter to think about. Segan, a dad himself, chose another suddenly-a-father character for today's epsiode: H.I. McDonnough (Nicolas Cage) from the 1987 Coen Brothers comedy Raising Arizona. Listen and learn how fatherhood, creative genesis, vampirism, and work/life balance are all mixed into the space between these two films, made 35 years apart.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about an action movie really straddling that naughty/nice divide: Violent Night.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Noah Segan

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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Sometimes our co-hosts really struggle to come up with a character to discuss for our show. But actor Raúl Castillo (The Inspection, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Looking, and much more) went with his gut, and what came to mind immediately was The Outsiders, and especially Matt Dillon's character of lead "greaser" Dallas "Dally" Winston. Jordan, Raúl, and you the listener will all learn at the same time just why this character stuck with him all these years. 

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Raúl Castillo

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Rahul Kohli is a working actor -- and thanks in part to the prolific Mike Flanagan, he's been working a lot lately.  In this episode, Rahul (whose latest film is NEXT EXIT, directed by Mali Elfman) tells us the many ways that he feels seen by Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) in the KARATE KID films, and does so with a scrappy spirit that Daniel would approve of. 

Then, Jordan's one quick thing is an ode to Rebecca Hall and her latest, RESURRECTION.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Rahul Kohli

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We're celebrating our First Birthday with the one and only Paul Feig, writer/director/producer behind stuff like FREAKS AND GEEKS, BRIDESMAIDS, SPY, THE HEAT, A SIMPLE FAVOR, and lots more stuff. Starting off with his deep identification with the singularly obsessed Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Paul shares stories of his childhood as a sci-fi loving movie nerd, his adulthood as a newly minted horror fan, and a bunch of stuff in between. 

Paul's latest is The School for Good and Evil, streaming on Netflix right now.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Paul Feig

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David Bizzaro has had a long and varied career in front of and behind the camera, but his newest role is Mochi on Netflix's Waffles and Mochi's Restaurant. Mochi is...well, a mochi. He talks a lot, but doesn't say words. He's a tiny pink ball. He's friends with Michelle Obama. This week, David shares his journey into puppetry, his family background raised by an immigrant mother, seeing neurodiversity on screen, and more -- through his shows, as well as The Man Who Fell to Earth and Andor.

The Jordan has one quick thing about the return of Jennifer Lawrence (not that she ever really went anywhere!).

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With Jordan Crucchiola and David Bizzaro

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“Tell me a tale of yourself, so that I might know thee,” King Arthur asks Dev Patel’s Gawain inThe Green Knight (2021). At a time in her life when she was struggling with illness and her own creative ambitions, Nyla Innuksuk heard the question as if she were the one being asked. She’ll tell us all about it – and lots of great behind-the-scenes stories of her tale of Indigenous girls in the Canadian Arctic, SLASH/BACK.

Then, Jordan takes a moment to remember director Jeff Barnaby.

Additional reading:

Jordan’s Vulture  interview with Jeff Barnaby

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Nyla Innuksuk

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Lucky McKee's new film, Old Man, is the latest in a career of character-driven horror favorites like May, The Woman, and All Cheerleaders Die. And in this episode, he's sharing his personal resonance with Charlie, the main character in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). In a powder keg of rough men always threatening to go off in a burst of violence, Charlie (played by Harvey Keitel) is a mediator who can't quite explain why he feels compelled to vouch for certain friends.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the LA premiere of Give Me an A!

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Lucky McKee

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart

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Indie producer, film festival programmer, and fellow Maximum Fun movie podcaster Drea Clark called dibs on Muriel Heslop before the first episode of Feeling Seen ever aired. The movie has been a favorite since its 1994 release, and while Drea doesn't relate to every aspect of Toni Collette's iconic "terrible" wannabe bride, Muriel's journey to self-acceptance and growth spoke to Drea, both then and now.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about another story of the power of friendship...M3GAN.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Drea Clark

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From his early films like The Roost (2005) and Trigger Man (2007), to  his work with other bootstrappy filmmakers on the original V/H/S anthology, to this year's double  -- no, make that triple! -- feature of X, Pearl, and soon MaXXXine, director Ti West has been a distinctive voice in the genre cinema landscape.  So how perfect that he felt seen -- and inspired -- by another unique cinema voice, Peter Jackson. Jackson's first film, Bad Taste (1987), saw him play multiple roles both behind and in front of the camera. It proved to a young Ti West that if you want to make a movie badly enough, you can always go ahead  and do it yourself.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about Jennifer Lopez's next big (fictional) wedding.

Additional reading:
More about Glass Eye Pix
More about V/H/S
 

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with Jordan Crucchiola and Ti West

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At 62, Doug Jones is as busy as ever, playing The Baron on FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Saru on Star Trek: Discovery, and returning to the role of Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus 2. But you might be most familiar with Doug for his singular roles in heavy prosthetics -- as Abe Sapien in Hellboy and Hellboy II, as The Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water; as Pan and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth. Doug's physical presence -- once something he'd have wished away -- is a huge part of what has made his performances so rich and memorable.  And one early source of inspiration and identification was Ray Bulger's Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about a movie you've probably heard of: Smile.

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Here's that Reddit thread about how sexy people find Baron Afanas.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Doug Jones

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Polish film director Agnieszka Smoczyńska has fascinated audiences with films like The Lure and Fugue. Now, her first English-language film is in theaters. Silent Twins tells the true story of the Gibbons twins, with a style that sets harsh reality and the beauty (and power) of imagination in contrast. So perhaps it’s no surprise that stories of fantastic heroines on fanstastic journeys has long enchanted Aga. In this episode, she talks with Jordan about her own work and life, and goes on a whirlwind tour through movies as different as Pippi Longstocking, Three Colors: Blue, The Silence of the Lambs, and Nomadland.  

Then, Jordan has one quick thing you’ll want to stick around for.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Budding cinephiles: Here's a list of movies and filmmakers from today's episode...

Pippi Longstocking (1969, 1988)
Ponyo (2008)
Breathless (1960)
Blue (1994)
Nomadland (2020)
Kill Bill Vol 1/Vol 2 (2003/2004)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
The Silent Twins (2022)
The Lure (2015)
Fugue (2018)
The Silence of the Lambs  (1991)
La Strada (1954)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Boyhood (2014)
Suspiria (2018)
Titane (2021)
Ingmar Bergman
Michelangelo Antonioni

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The days when Ryan Kwanten was best known for playing Jason Stackhouse on True Blood may be coming to an end. This year alone, he's toplined three films -- the upcoming action thriller Section Eight, last month's Glorious (a two-hander with J.K. Simmons), and  Expired.  Here, Ryan shares what drives his project choices and performances and tells us why he feels seen by Maximus Decimus  Meridius (as well as a fun and surprising alternate pick!).

Then, Jordan has one quick thing -- breaking A24 trilogy news! 

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Television writer and producer Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz really struggled to find a character that she saw herself in -- a Latinx, first-generation American, striving to do her best as a woman in a male-dominated world. But when she found Amy Santiago (played on BROOKLYN NINE-NINE by Melissa Fumero), Brig REALLY found her -- she got hired to write on BROOKLYN NINE-NINE not long after the show began, and it kickstarted her career writing for TV comedies (People of Earth, Love Life, One Day at a Time, Gordita Chronicles).

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about a heatwave rewatch of 1983's KRULL.

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz

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A writer for stage and screen, an artistic director, and an actor, Kwame Kwei-Armah chose a truly poetic trio of Black men pushed to a righteous breaking point for today’s conversation. Which is a perfect parallel to his latest project, Breaking (which premiered at Sundance ‘22 under the title 892), starring John Boyega and based on the true story of Brian Brown-Easley. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about forthcoming shorts anthology Give Me an A.

Movies this week:

Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)

Ragtime (Milos Forman, 1981)

Hollywood Shuffle (Robert Townsend, 1987)

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Kwame Kwei-Armah

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Dana Gould’s connection to Ed Wood – both the movie and the man himself runs deep. He shares Wood’s love of monster horror, he auditioned to be in the Tim Burton film, and as he’s gotten older, he’s found himself relating to both the Ed and Bela Lugosi characters in new ways. Here, he shares those stories, plus how his inner Ed helped him bring his “Dr. Z” to life.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about her recent Hollywood Forever double feature.

Watch Hanging with Dr. Z on YouTube

Here’s the full “Dr. Z” guest spot on TCM with Ben Mankiewicz

Books referenced here:
David J. Skal, The Monster Show
Harry Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet
Katharine Coldiron’s Midnight Movie Monograph on Plan 9

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With 

Jordan Crucchiola and Dana Gould

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart

Sr. Producers Kevin Ferguson and Laura Swisher

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